“You talked about Fight Club.” - Jon Stewart to Scott McClellan.

Scott McClellan showed up on The Daily Show to promote his new book. The interview is worth watching:

Scott McClellan’s new book has White House in an uproar.

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new tell-all book What Happened, about his time working in the Bush Administration, has created quite the shit storm over the past few days. The news media have been lapping up revelations such as this one on Bush’s real motivation for starting a war with Iraq:

In Iraq, . . . → Read More: Scott McClellan’s new book has White House in an uproar.

The results are in: “American Gods” now readable on the web for free.

Neil put up the announcement on his blog just recently:

Kids! Free! Book! The good news is the link to the free online American Gods is up on the front page of the neilgaiman.com website. The bad news is that the link is wrong.

For the next month, your free copy of American Gods is . . . → Read More: The results are in: “American Gods” now readable on the web for free.

Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book” is complete.

One of my favorite authors just posted on his blog that he’s done with his latest novel titled The Graveyard Book. Here he tries to explain what it is about and who it is for:

Over the last few months people have written in and asked what kind of a book The Graveyard Book is, . . . → Read More: Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book” is complete.

Neil Gaiman seeks your opinion on which book to give away.

One of my favorite authors, Neil Gaiman, has just celebrated his blog’s seventh anniversary and in celebration he’s asking fans to vote for which book will be made available online for free:

As you may have deduced, it’s the blog’s 7th birthday today. On February the 9th 2001, I started writing this thing. And now, . . . → Read More: Neil Gaiman seeks your opinion on which book to give away.

Final “Harry Potter” film might actually be two films.

Rumor has it that Warner Bros. might break the final HP novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, into two movies according to this article in The Mail:

The books got progressively longer – the first, the Philosopher’s Stone, had 223 pages while Deathly Hallows has 776 – and fans have complained chunks of later . . . → Read More: Final “Harry Potter” film might actually be two films.

“Science, Evolution, and Creationism” available for free.

The folks at the National Academy of Sciences have put together a book titled Science, Evolution, and Creationism which looks to be a much needed resource for all the evolution deniers out there (if you can get them to read a book). They’re offering to sell you a copy or you can download a free . . . → Read More: “Science, Evolution, and Creationism” available for free.

Christmas comes a little early for me.

Got a package the other day that I thought was one of the gifts I had purchased for my wife, but it turns out upon opening it up today that it was for me. SEB member Lost Alaska was kind enough to send me some books from my wish list: Spook Country and Pattern Recognition . . . → Read More: Christmas comes a little early for me.

AFA is scared shitless of “The Golden Compass.”

SEB regular DaBroad dropped by with a couple of links to articles about a warning from the American Family Association about the upcoming release of The Golden Compass. It seems they’re the latest religious group to get their panties all in a twist over this movie without even having seen it yet. They’re so in . . . → Read More: AFA is scared shitless of “The Golden Compass.”

I just started reading…

… The Golden Compass today. Anne ordered the box set from Amazon.com the other day after hearing about it from me and she’s already well into the second book. So I’m playing catch up at this point, but it’ll give me something to do during the occasional downtime at work.

I’ll post about it . . . → Read More: I just started reading…